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RF connectors and v4l2



Hello to all,

I posted this in a thread and got no response but it may not have been the proper place to ask. Anyway....

	Michael Krufky wrote:


Please see the discussion in the list between Mac Michaels, Kirk Lapray and I about this very topic. We agree with you, but the API doesnt allow it in analog mode, unless you can change tuner input using GPIO...



I was reading the Video for Linux Two API Specifications (Is this the API referred to) trying to understand them. Under section 1.6.1 Tuners of the specification it says:
Video input devices can have one or more tuners demodulating a RF signal. Each tuner is associated with one or more video inputs, depending on the number of RF connectors on the tuner.



And in section 6.2.9 V4L2 in Linux 2.5.46 2002-10 it says:

6. The struct v4l2_tuner <http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec-single/v4l2.html#V4L2-TUNER> |input| field was replaced by an |index| field, permitting devices with multiple tuners. The link between video inputs and tuners is now reversed, inputs point to the tuner they are on. The |std| substructure became a simple set (more about this below) and moved into struct v4l2_input <http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec-single/v4l2.html#V4L2-INPUT>. A |type| field was added.


To me this implies that the API spec does handle RF input selection by selecting a different video input. The driver should be able to define any number of inputs, RF or not, which could point to the same tuner. Am I misinterpreting the API Spec?


Jon

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